Working memory without consciousness

Working memory without consciousness

Working memory allows individuals to maintain information in the focus of the mind’s eye in the service of goal-directed behavior. Current psychological theories (for example, Baddeley’s influential model of working memory) [1], computational models [2] and neurobiological accounts of working memory are based on the assumption that working memory operates on consciously represented information....

A theory of working memory without consciousness or sustained activity

Working memory and conscious perception are thought to share similar brain mechanisms, yet recent reports of non-conscious working memory challenge this view. Combining visual masking with magnetoencephalography, we investigate the reality of non-conscious working memory and dissect its neural mechanisms. In a spatial delayed-response task, participants reported the location of a subjectively u...

A theory of working memory 1 without consciousness or sustained activity

Working Memory and Consciousness: The Current State of Play

Working memory (WM), an important posit in cognitive science, allows one to temporarily store and manipulate information in the service of ongoing tasks. WM has been traditionally classified as an explicit memory system-that is, as operating on and maintaining only consciously perceived information. Recently, however, several studies have questioned this assumption, purporting to provide eviden...

Attention and Working Memory : Tools for Understanding Consciousness Jill